题型:阅读选择 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
福建省泉州第十六中学2019届九年级下学期英语期中考试试卷
Twenty-two-year-old Timothy Doner from New York City has been able to speak 23 different languages, including some rare African ones.
Timothy began his foreign language education at the age of 13. Attracted by in Israeli(以色列) musical band. Timothy listened to their album every morning. A month Later, he kept about 20 of their songs in his mind, though he didn't know what the Hebrew(希伯来语) words mean. But once he learned the translation. it was like he had a dictionary in his head.
Then Timothy moved on to Arabic (阿拉伯语) which he studied every morning by reading newspapers with a dictionary and by talking to street vendors (小贩). After that he learned Persian, then Russian, then Mandarin... and about twenty others and developed a crazy low for languages.
Now, Timothy is still teaching himself new languages. With the help of language books and word-learning Apps on his iPhone. He can master a language in a few weeks or months.
What has Timothy got from learning so many languages? "By learning languages, you are learning a lot more. You are learning about culture, everything from cooking to TV,poetry and whatever it may be. That helps you better understand the language,” he said.
①reading news papers ② joining in language clubs ③listening to foreign music
④using apps and dictionaries ⑤ travelling around the world ⑥keeping diaries in different languages
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